Reducing the Backlog of Open Bug Reports

The number of open bug reports in the R bug tracker has been reduced by about 25% during August and September this year. This work has been possible thanks to an investment of the Sovereign Tech Fund. Urgent bug reports that are easily reproducible, ideally coming with a small reproducible example, are typically resolved quickly. Other bugs, however, can remain open for a long time. As the backlog grows in size, it becomes hard to navigate, even though it still contains some real bugs experienced by users.